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The Village

Ivan Bunin


  • Alma Books - Alma Classics
  • Alma Classics
Ivan Bunin's first published work, The Village is a bleak and uncompromising portrayal of rural life in south-west Russia. Set at the time of the 1905 Revolution and centering on episodes in the lives of two peasant brothers - "characters sunk so far below the average of intelligence as to be scarcely human" - it reveals the pettiness, violence and ignorance of life on the land.

ISBN 9781847492838 | E | PB
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Publisher Alma Books - Alma Classics
ISBN 9781847492838
Publication date November 2012
Edition Paperback
Dimensions 240 x 201 mm
Pages 200
Language(s) Eng. ed.
Exhibition Alma Classics
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Ivan Bunin’s first published work, The Village is a bleak and uncompromising portrayal of rural life in south-west Russia. Set at the time of the 1905 Revolution and centering on episodes in the lives of two peasant brothers – “characters sunk so far below the average of intelligence as to be scarcely human” – it reveals the pettiness, violence and ignorance of life on the land.

At once nostalgic for a bygone more innocent age and foreshadowing the turbulences of the twentieth century, Bunin’s narrative is a triumph of bitter realism, shot through with the author’s classical style and precision of language.